After a month of experiments and research into level-up publishing tech (translations, video, some 3D) I've concluded two things...
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... 1. Radical publishing models will only emerge when marginal value of core tech drops below mediatech, making top talent switch, ~ 2020
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...2. BUT there will be huge gains available to hard core tech people who decide to focus on media tech right now a few years ahead of pack
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...because face it: tech talent available to media, whether you're NYT, Buzzfeed, Medium or boutique guy like me, is 2nd tier at best.
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reinvented Wordpress with full-stack commerce/advertising capability, tool chains for video, audio, VR, AR and events...
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(Because top engineers want to work on things like drones, Bitcoin and autonomous cars, not reinvented newspapers and blogs...)
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they are not a media company. It's just temporarily convenient to them to play host for distribution aggregation leverage
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Medium is not technologically-hard, it is UX-hard, very simple to make in modern frameworks. Most media is UX deficient, no retention.
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Medium is bad tech, period. It does nothing to solve the problem of radical publishing tech.
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that also sounds highly plausible for scientific publishing.




